Mac Moments

Jessica with her friend Erin Matthew looking scarey Sean and Dad looking on Sorry to say this, but I am convinced that housework ages you..... the solution let everything go to pot, live in a state of dissaray and look young :-) The continuous state of cooking, cleaning, washing, folding, packing, childcare, homework, etc etc etc and the monotony of it is enough to make anyone insane.....the moral of this short and sweet story is that I soooo miss Betty.....my constant lifesaver at home. My cooker, cleaner, washer, babysitter, housekeeper, sane keeper, my friend and my kids 2nd Mother!!!! If there is one thing I could have brought with me it would have been Betty :-) Yes, yes my family and friends too, but would you have cleaned the apartment for me..... excluding Mom of course!!!!! LOL Btw for those who bitch about their maids, let me tell you it is a heartless, thankless job.....don't moan too much guys.....one day you may be the maid :-) I know! Yay 5 days to go, I have a l...

Jess 7th Birthday party - 2 months early with Nathan 6 This morning I was running happily on the treadmill, thinking that I would do 1/2 hour as I had just walked 36 floors of the building.....so 1/2 hour would be enough for me to feel like i had exercised today....obsessively I will go to gym tonight to make up for the lack of strength training.... Besides that, my run was extended, as obsessively again, I needed a rounded figure to finish off with.... the 30 minute rounded figure was not in my mind the right rounding, no I felt that the rounding needed to be that of the distance run, my mind racing along with my legs then needed to determine how far the rounding needed to go, I was sitting at 4.38km's at this stage so could I push to 4.5 or should it be 5?? If I do 5 then my run is extended time wise and I did not want to push too far past 30 minutes and I need to do other things today (I say as I am writing this and should be doing other things instead).... Do our obssessive co...

Marco 21st and the boys - Adrian, Paul, Steve, Dad, Marco and Mariano Les, Debs and Me at the cliffs Life saving pub after the cliffs - Paul, Les, Me and Steve Photos of our times in Ireland 2006 ok, trying to get videos and photos sorted before I leave on holiday.... :-) be still my heart, it is quite a process to do the last 20 years.....lol I came across this really funny video ..... you had to be there, but I know it is going to put a smile on at least 5 other peoples faces, so bear with me. We went up to the Cliffs of Mohair in 2006 while we were in Ireland for Marco's 21st birthday (note to self, must get to Ireland in the summer next time :-)) anyway, Debbie was dressed in this bright yellow rain coat with a fluffy pink and black retro afro beanie.....it elicited quite a few laughs from the rest of us. Needless to say, looking at the video now, we all looked pretty ridiculous, just love it..... the wind was howling and we were literally being blown off our feet. Regardless...

The Tree house I will take an actual picture next week on my way to classes, this is there sketch of what it will eventually look like! This is just a quickie today ;-) Sean did his Taekwando grading, the minx is loving it and I am so happy that he has at last found a martial art that he is loving! We will find out in the next 2 weeks if he got his green belt.... The joke, ok - on the way to the grading the team dropped me off at Education City for me to go to my classes, they are still building the city so lots of cranes and unfinished buildings around. There is one particular building, where the concept is a tree representing, growth, structure, support, family, blah blah..... as we drive past the uncompleted building, Jess looks at it and says : "That's the biggest Tree house I have ever seen!" From the mouths of babes :-) Love it, she says it as she sees it....we were laughing for the rest of the trip! Have a great week and excellent day off tomorrow

The view from the 30th of the Pearl (not a great pic) TV in kitchen The Kitchen on the 30th Steve chilling in the apartment Me with the kids on my way to the wedding Jess loving the whole setup of all the girls dressed up The girls - Megan, Leonie, Traci, Nathalie, Me and Erin So much to tell, so little time. It is 5am here in Qatar and I just couldn't sleep. I am not sure if it was the unbelievably noisy and ever constant drilling 15 floors down or the thoughts of the wedding floating through my head or the thought that Jess has to go on the bus this afternoon with the reprimanded bullies, but sleep has evaded me after only getting to bed at 12:30 this morning..... boy am I gonna be tired later on today. It has been a tough two weeks with Jess getting ill with snotty nose and runny ears and trying to sort that out and ensure that she does not get a major infection, which I am pleased to say we managed to do without antibiotics. Then I got the bug and felt awful, and now it is Stev...